Starfleet Jedi

Looking good.

Welcome to StarfleetJedi.net and thanks for the images.

Am I the only one who finds the city to be rather bizarre? Is that some sort of farm land between the city and the thick barrier?

Might be sub-burbs or sprawl depending on how Vulcans design their cities. You'd think that farmland would be green.

It's actually yet another TAS reference:


http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/ShirKah

Presumably this is indeed ShirKahr, Spock's birthplace and childhood hometown.
-Mike

I think this is the article you want:


http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/ShiKahr

The one you posted leads no where. Looks pretty similar though.

Oh yeah, and welcome to the SFJ forums, Cpl Kendall. It's been a while since the Strek-V-SWars.Net days. :-)


The other thing of note here as a reference is the fact that the landscapes in general resemble those seen in ST:TMP The Director's Edition, ST3, as well as ST:ENT:

http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Mount_Seleya

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:VulcanCapital.jpg

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:VulcansForge.jpg

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Fire_plains.jpg

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/disp ... um=3&pos=5

Nice bit of continuity, if you ask me.
-Mike

Cpl Kendall wrote:I think this is the article you want:


http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/ShiKahr

The one you posted leads no where. Looks pretty similar though.

Yeah, that's it. Odd, it worked in the preview.
-Mike

You forgot the r at the end.

Re: Ring around the city

Even for Vulcans, I can't imagine that being in the desert and experiencing the joy of "urban heat islands" is that great an experience. So it might be some sort of cooling/heating design. Or, the city could be on the verge of a major, pre-planned expansion . . . given the strict design of the place that's possible. Or it could be the planting season. Or those could be the residential districts. There's really no telling. In any case, though, that implies that the mountain is frickin' huge.

I actually like that, 'cause whereas Archer performed okay in the heat and thin air, Kirk lasted all of five minutes. Little wonder, if he was this high on a planet with thin air anyway.

Those shots are incredibly beautiful. Sorry for not providing an exhaustive technical analysis of whatever shmuk, but aesthetically, I just love the whole place.
Jaw dropping.

Cpl Kendall wrote:You forgot the r at the end.

Actually, that is the URL as copied and pasted from the Memory Alpha article.
-Mike

2046 wrote:

Re: Ring around the city
Even for Vulcans, I can't imagine that being in the desert and experiencing the joy of "urban heat islands" is that great an experience. So it might be some sort of cooling/heating design. Or, the city could be on the verge of a major, pre-planned expansion . . . given the strict design of the place that's possible. Or it could be the planting season. Or those could be the residential districts. There's really no telling. In any case, though, that implies that the mountain is frickin' huge.

If by "ring", you mean the outermost ring structure, it looks less like a reflector system, and more like an earthen rampart. As for the ring structure being part of a pre-planned expansion, it would have to be a very long term one since we see this very same structure about 3 decades or so prior to "The Amok Time":

http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Ima ... hr2237.jpg

I'am not sure that even the Vulcans are that much into long-term planning!
-Mike

Mike DiCenso wrote:Oh yeah, and welcome to the SFJ forums, Cpl Kendall. It's been a while since the Strek-V-SWars.Net days. :-)


The other thing of note here as a reference is the fact that the landscapes in general resemble those seen in ST:TMP The Director's Edition, ST3, as well as ST:ENT:

http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Mount_Seleya

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:VulcanCapital.jpg

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:VulcansForge.jpg

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Fire_plains.jpg

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/disp ... um=3&pos=5

Nice bit of continuity, if you ask me.
-Mike

Refreshing, actually. I can't justify anything in Enterprise, since continuity is completely jettisoned, (with regards to TOS) but these shot of Vulcan matching TAS is a huge nod to fans.

Apperently the mandate of the folks doing the remastering is to make everything fit within the existing continuity and not add anything to contradict that. So tie in's to TAS=good but don't expect to see an aged Ensign Satio on Tarsus IV (as apperently that's where she died) when they remaster the Kodos episode.

Cock_Knocker wrote:

Mike DiCenso wrote:Oh yeah, and welcome to the SFJ forums, Cpl Kendall. It's been a while since the Strek-V-SWars.Net days. :-)


The other thing of note here as a reference is the fact that the landscapes in general resemble those seen in ST:TMP The Director's Edition, ST3, as well as ST:ENT:

http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Mount_Seleya

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:VulcanCapital.jpg

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:VulcansForge.jpg

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Fire_plains.jpg

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/disp ... um=3&pos=5

Nice bit of continuity, if you ask me.
-Mike

Refreshing, actually. I can't justify anything in Enterprise, since continuity is completely jettisoned, (with regards to TOS) but these shot of Vulcan matching TAS is a huge nod to fans.

Continuity was not completely jettisoned with regards to TOS, unless you cling to fanon continuity, that is. In fact, thanks largely to ST:ENT's 4th season, we now have the biggest TAS references of any of the series!
-Mike